Monday, January 25, 2010 at 8pm
at the Manny Fried Playhouse
 a
one-night-only staged reading of
GUANTANAMO:
Honor Bound to Defend Freedom
by Gillian Slovo
Directed by Megan Callahan
Starring Richard
Satterwhite, Chris
Corporandy, Afrim Gjonbalaj, Dinash Lal, Ferdinand Lewis, and Christopher
Standart*
This event is sponsored by:
WNY Peace Center, CodePink Buffalo, and Buffalo's Peace, Justice, Anti-War
Coalition (PJAW)
ADMISSION: Donation Only
(all proceeds go to PJAW)
The Performance will be followed by a
panel discussion featuring:
Charlie Bowman, of the WNY Peace Center
Howard William Henry, Jr. of the National Religious Campaign Against
Torture
Victoria Ross, Peaceful Conflict Resolution Coordinator for WNY Peace
Center
To benefit Buffalo's Peace, Justice, Anti-War (PJAW)
Coalition, Subversive Theatre is holding a staged reading of Gillian Slovo's
docu-drama play GUANTANAMO: Honor Bound to Defend Freedom,
with selections from Poems from Guantanamo: The Detainees Speak,
compiled and edited by Marc Falkoff. The play focuses on four British
citizens who were held at Guantanamo and contains the prisoners' real life
words about their experiences there right up until their release.
The testimonials of these former Guantanamo detainees
-- Wahab al-Rawi, Moazzam,
Ruhel Ahmed, and Jamal al-Harith -- will be brought to life by a talented
Buffalo cast, as they recount their days before and during their
incarcerations. Donald
Rumsfeld even makes an appearance, along with several key lawyers,
policy makers and other important figures regarding the unlawful
detainments.
Authored by activist Gillian Slovo -- who is the
daughter of South African Communist Party and ANC Leaders Joe Slovo and Ruth
First -- this play has been used to raise awareness about the Guantanamo
Prison all over the country with staged readings that have involved
internationally renowned human rights activist such as Desmond
Tutu and many others.
In light of President Barak Obama's recent
announcement of plans to close the facility at Guantanamo and his continued
ambiguous policy about what is to be done with the current detainees, this
docu-drama sadly continues to have considerable relevance. For the first
time, this reading will be teamed up with poems written by the actual
detainees at Guantanamo, which only made it to publication through the work of
hundreds of volunteer lawyers and paralegals.
Directed by Megan Callahan, this staged reading features the acting talents
of Richard Satterwhite, Chris
Corporandy, Afrim Gjonbalaj, Dinash Lal, Ferdinand Lewis, and Christopher
Standart.
Our presentation will be followed by a panel
discussion addressing multiple human rights issues featuring Buffalo activists
Charlie Bowman, Howard Henry, and Victoria Ross, who have all been involved in
the national campaign to close Guantanamo.
The reading will be presented by the Subversive Theatre
Collective on Monday, January 25 at 8:00pm in the Manny Fried Playhouse at 255
Great Arrow Avenue on the third floor of the Great Arrow Building in North
Buffalo. The event is sponsored by the WNY Peace Center, CodePink
Buffalo, and the Buffalo Peace, Justice, Anti-War (PJAW) Coalition. All
proceeds benefit PJAW.
For more information, give us a call
at 716-408-0499.
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